Conceptual vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
conceptual | pragmatic |
Of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination
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Of, or relating to conceptualism
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
As adjectives the difference between conceptual and pragmatic
is that conceptual is of, or relating to concepts or mental conception; existing in the imagination while pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.conceptual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We defined a conceptual model before designing the real thing.
- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
Derived terms
* aconceptual * conceptually * conceptual model * conceptual art * conceptual graph * conceptual network * preconceptualDescendants
* German: (l)External links
* *pragmatic
English
Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.
